Experimental infection of serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) with European bat lyssavirus type 1a

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2493-2502

  Freuling, Conrad ^a   Vos, A ^b   Johnson, N ^c   Kaipf, I ^d   Denzinger, A ^d   Neubert, L ^b   Mansfield, K ^c   Hicks, D ^c   Nunez A ^c   Tordo, N ^e   Rupprecht, C E ^f   Fooks, A R ^c   Muller T ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b IDT GmbH   (Germany)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLADDER; BLOOD; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEART; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVARY GLAND; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLEEN; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EPTESICUS SEROTINUS; EUROPEAN BAT LYSSAVIRUS 1;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; HEART; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPLEEN; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 70350174996     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.011510-0     Document Type: Article

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